Sergeant JIM WAGNER IWagner. l existe peu d’instructeurs de self-défense dans le monde avec un background aussi diversifié que Jim Ils sont encore moins nombreux à avoir provoqué un tel impact dans le monde des arts martiaux. Il est l’homme à l’origine de la popularité des arts martiaux Reality-Based.
La carrière professionnelle de Jim Wagner :
* Ancien soldat * Gardien de prison * Officier de police * Officier SWAT * Garde du corps de diplomates et de célébrités * Agent contre-terroriste * Chef d’équipe SRT (Special Response Team) * Instructeur de Tactiques Défensives Police et Armée * Instructeur de tir * Fondateur du système de protection personnelle Reality-Based
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hen police officers want to look around a corner into a Hot Zone, where an armed suspect can be laying in wait for an ambush, they use a small tactical mirror to look around the corner rather than sticking their head around corner and possibly getting shot.
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f course, if time permits, the first peek is taken by the police officer in a kneeling position so that the mirror is low close to the floor. Hopefully the bad guy want see the low positioned mirror because most people scan for targets, even when looking at a corner, about chest height. In a tactical situation having the mirror low near the floor is difficult to detect. Special Operations teams go one step further when looking into a room from behind a corner with a camera lens located on a telescoping or bending tube that can be made to look around the corner and send the electronic image to a small viewing monitor.
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eedless to say, this piece of equipment is quite expensive. When mobile phones with cameras first were first on the market I came up with the idea to use my phone, which like most smart phones has still photography and vide camera capabilities. I have been teaching police patrol officers and Special Operations officers and soldiers for two decades now in various quick peek methods, and merging the techniques with the new technology seemed like the next logical step to me. Sometimes the simplest of ideas are not always the easiest to come up with.